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I am aware that there is an issue with cron at the moment and I think I know why. It's happening very sporadically and randomly, and affecting random parts in random areas of the cron script. When I run them manually, they're fine, so I'm going to assume the server cron times out at random times. I can't check my email reports because the mail server is corrupted, so what's looking likely is a complete fresh reinstall of the server soon, which would probably mean a day or two of downtime. Don't panic, there won't be any rollbacks - haha! But anyway - unless it's urgent, please don't report it anymore on the boards. If you have a dino that should be able to breed again, message me the id and I'll reset her breeding days. I'd also recommend switching to aging on login for now because that seems to run a lot better than aging per day. I'll keep you all posted on progress.

To clarify: Breeding days are not controlled via login, they decrement every day regardless of if you login or not. This is why this will probably be the only thing (short of HOF) that won't work if you swap to age on login while I investigate this.

On a much lighter note!

Dino pages have a new look. ;D

They show information in tabbed, easy-to-flick-between content, which means it looks a ton more organized and shiny, and I can pack lots and lots of detail and information onto a dinosaur's page - and now it won't look cramped or squished! And hopefully, it will kill anytimes where the page has overlapped onto the sidebar.

I hope you like!

UPDATE: Some of you complained about battling taking longer. I added a "quick battle" area to the sidebar. It should be even quicker for battling than before using this. :) (It will only appear if you own the dino and it is available for battling. It also has the tendency to stretch over onto the green if you have a healing item with a name that's veeeeeeery long.)

The dream sheet isn't your personal ordering form. ;) If I've already completed yours, do NOT send another one in with things you "might have had" or "would like" - these get immediately deleted and if repeated I will be forced to issue a warning.

You'll know if I've completed yours because you'll either get a message back with all the items, or the items (sometimes it's faster for me not to drop a message back) just magically appear in your inventory.

The vast majority of you have been very reasonable and I appreciate it. :)

Please also give love to Kitei, who has been manually sending items out for me as well. <3

I will be removing the dreamsheet sometime this weekend. Anyone who logs in after that and hasn't had a chance to take a look at the dreamsheet will need to message me and we'll work something out. :)

Items were lost again, it seems, so I have immediately closed the site down and spent all day working on this.

The backup system is set to overwrite every day for some stupid reason so I've changed had to go in and change it so it doesn't overwrite anymore. This means there will be no rollback, so don't worry about losing new lab dinos you made or dinos you bred, etc. I won't be rolling back.

This also means I have spent all day staring into the database at 75000+ entries, and trying to figure out how to get what item back to what person.

This is what I've saved:
- Anything equipped to your dinosaurs.
- Anything equipped to enclosures.
- All filters that were attached.

What I've given you automatically:
- A healing pills with 1000 uses. This should keep you going for a while.
- One of every food item (minus rares).

What's happened with the rest:
- All food items (minus rares and the ones I gave you) have been erased.
- All health items (minus rares and the ones I gave you) have been erased.
- All equippables (minus rares and ones equipped to dinos) have been erased.
- All enclosure items (minus rares and ones equipped to enclosures) have been erased.
- All unattached filters have been erased.
- All shopbought plushies have been erased, but everyone has been given an extra $25,000 to compensate for this.
- All nets have been erased. Everyone has been given one pink fishing net (this has 35 uses, so will last for over a month).
- Anyone who donated between August-September over $20 have been given a Candyland background.
- Anyone who donated in October over $20 have been given a replacement Zombie Cookie.

Everything else has been left to a "dream sheet." Basically, this is a list of rare and collectable items that you may or may not have collected/stockpiled. I'm not expecting everyone to completely remember what they had but if you have a rough idea, and maybe perhaps an extra couple that you would have liked just for the inconvenience of this, you can get them granted to your account. I will be reviewing every one submitted so be realistic - if you're a brand new account and requesting one of everything let's just say it's not going to happen. x3

I'm really sorry about all of this and this is completely my fault (regarding the backup etc). I will be up into the late hours tonight checking across logs and double, triple, quadruple checking the coding for anything that could have hinted towards this. I've been told it happened at the exact same time as last time (weird) so it could be a random cron from somewhere.

But as a headsup I have reviewed this many times in the past and gone over it with a fine tooth comb today and I'm still not finding anything that would generate such a... Well, mess.

I am expecting a backlash from this but I'm trying my best to make this as pain free for everyone. I hope you guys can all forgive me (and thank God it didn't affect the dinos!!). <3

As a further apology, I've given everyone one Kitty Icecream, which was the July donation item.

The link to the dream sheet is on your sidebar now. Please try only to submit once and please try to be honest. :)

Some of you may have noticed now that there has been a change to the message boards and chat rooms.

Under 13s are no longer permitted to enter the chatroom or the main message boards. Instead, all under 13s have access to under 13-only boards consisting of general, sales, roleplaying and help/bugs. The only non-under 13s that will be able to access these boards will be moderators, for obvious reasons.

The decision to do this was not taken lightly. It is to give under 13s an extra safety bump and was decided after receiving several complaint emails from parents. Instead of removing all under 13s from the site completely, I decided it would be fairer - and more logical - to do things this way. :) There are no changes to gameplay (no features are lost) - it's only the boards that have changed. These changes have been made to protect under-13s, and as soon as they turn 13 they will be able to access the main boards again.

I expect there will be a few complaints but I hope all of you can understand why I made this decision, and agree that it's for the best. :)

So I have released one of the new games for Halloween today and it's ZOMBIE TAG! This game is played via the boards and the aim of the game is simply to infect as many players as possible - and in turn, get infected. You can view your "zpoints" and read more about this game here.

You can earn yourself this awesome trophy if you play:

The other one will come along sometime this week. ;D

Spread the zombieness!!!!!

As a side note: as it's Halloween this month, which is my favourite holiday of the year... Every $20 donation or more will get you a Zombie Cookie which will give a dinosaur some pretty good boosts. ;D

We've been having a slight issue with cron but I *should* have nailed it now:

- All dinos that age per day (not login per day) have had cron run for them so should be able to train, get hungry etc again today.
- All dinos that age per login have been aged back by two days (if the owner logged in today already and started the first half of their cron) so that when they login again tomorrow, it should all go through.

I've also smashed a few bugs today, and there's a few new additions:

- A URL button for the chatroom, so you can post links without having to race to copy and paste before the room refreshes. It will automatically open a new window once you click them too.

- An inbreeding counter. I've been listening to what you guys have been asking for and I decided to come up with a happy medium. From now on, if you breed a mother to a son, a father to a daughter or a brother to a sister, every egg you get will be 100% inbred. Every half brother and half sister you breed together, the egg will be 50%. This will only decrease through new generations - breeding a 0% to a 100% for example would give you a 50% egg, etc etc. The dinosaurs will also get lower intelligence than a 0% inbred egg would.

- The Pyroraptor now has a chick picture. ;) (Microraptor to follow..)